Friends occasionally ask me if I am interested in starting to learn a new foreign language. It is said that it can effectively delay the decline of brain function and even prevent Alzheimer's disease. I am grateful for the kindness, but always speaking English makes me unable to do so. The second foreign language is obviously too extravagant. After decades of learning English, words and phrases that need to be looked up in the dictionary are still often found in daily news. For example, the key "Quid Pro Quo" in congressional impeachment hearings means "exchange terms", which specifically refers to military aid. As a condition, the Ukrainian side is required to investigate Biden and his son.
Quid Pro Quo is derived from Latin and is relatively complicated. There are not many clues such as roots, prefixes, suffixes, etc., so it can only be memorized. At the same time, some simple English words may not be familiar, such as "milf". I encountered it for the first time when I was browsing the novel "Mrs. Fletcher" a few years ago, and HBO is broadcasting the series of the same name in recent weeks. The heroine Eve Fletcher, like me, didn’t understand the meaning of this word originally. After being called "skinny (特瘦) milf (?) goddess" by friends, she googled the specific meaning of the word, which opened up the Internet The life journey of erotic intimate contact.
"Milf" is roughly equivalent to "mature woman" in Chinese, but it is difficult to accurately correspond. It seems that English is mostly used in pornographic context. This is why Eve was immediately surrounded by various XXX videos after searching on the Internet. The single mother Eve in the play is 46 years old, and her son has just left home to go to college. A considerable number of Chinese women of the same age may have turned their attention to finding a square for dancing, or pulling the sisters to figure out how to flash "Red Stars Let Me Fight", but Eve embarked on a new journey of exploration. . The audience should be able to find that after experiencing the release of desire and the relaxation of soul, she cannot fundamentally break free from the trouble of fragmentation and loneliness, living in the middle-class suburbs of the United States. Intimacy may not be able to shorten the distance between people.
The original author Tom Perrota’s previous novels Election and Little Children were adapted into good movies. He served as the executive producer of this series, and the directors of each episode were women, including Nicole Holofcener, who was nominated for an Oscar. .
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